College UA Ruhr: Events

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Albert the Great on Health, Disease, and Disability

13/01/2025 - 14/01/2025, Essen | hybrid

Albert the Great’s (Albertus Magnus) natural philosophy and observations of nature in the thirteenth century paved the way for modern science. This mini-conference focuses on Albert’s understanding of health, disease, and disability.

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Making Sense of German-African International Research Collaborations

15/01/2025, Essen

How do European and African researchers understand science and academic knowledge production? This series of dialogue events focuses on the role of culture and interculturality in international research collaborations between the Global North and Global South.

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Black. Queer. Trans. Desires

23/01/2025 - 24/01/2025, Essen | hybrid

This workshop explores the plurality of Black queer sexualities and desires from different perspectives – particularly through examining their political, social and cultural manifestation within structures of systemic racism, sexism, classism, homophobia, and transphobia.

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Ambitious Goals, Sober Reality? Feminist Foreign and Development Policy Put to the Test

25/06/2024, Essen

In recent years, numerous governments have adopted a "feminist foreign policy", a contested effort to bring about a paradigm shift in how their country engages with the rest of the world. In this public panel discussion, experts from government and academia will address various facets of feminist foreign and development policy, drawing on the experiences of Germany and other countries.

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Reading Session and Book Chat with Sule Emmanuel Egya (E. E. Sule)

20/06/2024, Essen

The renowned Nigerian writer and scholar Sule Emmanuel Egya, publishing under the pen-name E. E. Sule, will read from his first novel “Sterile Sky”, for which he received the Commonwealth Book Prize Africa Region in 2013, and from his unpublished poetry collection.

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Creative Writing Workshop with Sule Emmanuel Egya

20/06/2024, Essen

Students have the unique opportunity to hone their skills in writing poetry and fiction in this workshop with renowned Nigerian writer and scholar Sule Emmanuel Egya (pen-name E. E. Sule), followed by a reading session and book chat.

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German Influence on Turkish Economic Thought and Policy in the 19th and 20th Centuries

20/06/2024 - 21/06/2024, Essen | hybrid

The workshop retraces German influence on Turkish economic thought and policy in the 19th and 20th centuries, with a focus on the one-way flow of economic knowledge from Germany to Turkey, before Anglo-American mainstream economics almost entirely dominated economics as a social science after the Second World War.

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Fashion, Image, Exile: The Rediscovery of Theatre Photographer Elli Marcus (1899-1977)

12/06/2024 - 13/06/2024, Essen

The recently rediscovered work of theatre photographer Elli Marcus serves as the starting point for a broader discussion of fashion and theatre photography in this two-day workshop, co-organised by Senior Fellow Mila Ganeva and Gudrun M. König (TU Dortmund University). Its specific focus is on the fate of fashion and theatre photography in exile and the challenges associated with curating…

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Forgotten by Design. Foundational Limits and Dysfunctionalities in Computational Cognitive-Behavioral Environments

04/06/2024 - 05/06/2024, Essen

What is made technologically impossible through the cognitive-behavioural design of computational environments, thus becoming invisible, excluded, disposed, forgotten, or foreclosed? This workshop assumes a critical media studies perspective to tackle the history and theory of computational environments that are designed to study, model, or shape cognitive behaviour and decision-making, bringing…

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Towards Social Innovation Digital Ecosystems (SIDEs): Challenges and Opportunities

21/05/2024, Essen | hybrid

How can digital ecosystems support social innovation? The workshop, co-organised by Douglas Wegner, Senior Fellow at the College, and his tandem partner Jürgen Howaldt (TU Dortmund University), assembles different perspectives of invited experts in the field of social innovation. Examining cases in Latin America and Europe, the workshop addresses success factors, challenges, and opportunities.

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New Maps and Rubbish. Dynamic Forms of Nature - Artist Talk with Joanna Zdzienicka-Obałek

15/05/2024, Essen

From mind-mapping to the final result, artist-collector Joanna Zdzienicka-Obałek reflects upon her search for artistic methods and field practices gathering rubbish at Żabie Doły, a nature and landscape protected area. The talk is chaired by Mateusz Chaberski, assistant professor at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland.

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Waste as a By-Product of Modernity: New Approaches to the Old Problem

14/05/2024, Essen

The old dream that plastic would improve the world is one of many failed projects of modernity. The panel discussion, which is co-organised and chaired by College Senior Fellow Małgorzata Sugiera and Dorota Sajewska (Ruhr University Bochum), will focus on how artistic and discursive/speculative projects and practices could help us unmake waste by looking for an alternative modernity to counter the…

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collage of portrait pictures and the neoclassical facade of the College building

Multimodal Landscapes of Mediterranean Antiquity

25/04/2024 - 27/04/2024, Essen, College for Social Sciences and Humanities

This workshop will catalogue and study existing and remembered imageries of ancient pasts in the city of Essen. Co-organised by Senior Fellow Marta García Morcillo and her tandem partner Florian Freitag, this experimental project will unite researchers from different fields to investigate cultural artifacts and signs on site, including advertising, branding, photographs, and street art as well as…

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Ambitious Goals, Sober Reality? Feminist Foreign and Development Policy Put to the Test

Reading Session and Book Chat with Sule Emmanuel Egya (E. E. Sule)

Creative Writing Workshop with Sule Emmanuel Egya

German Influence on Turkish Economic Thought and Policy in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Fashion, Image, Exile: The Rediscovery of Theatre Photographer Elli Marcus (1899-1977)

Forgotten by Design. Foundational Limits and Dysfunctionalities in Computational Cognitive-Behavioral Environments

Towards Social Innovation Digital Ecosystems (SIDEs): Challenges and Opportunities

New Maps and Rubbish. Dynamic Forms of Nature - Artist Talk with Joanna Zdzienicka-Obałek

Waste as a By-Product of Modernity: New Approaches to the Old Problem

Multimodal Landscapes of Mediterranean Antiquity

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